Dow Jones Indexes and Wilshire Associates announced that Venezuela will be removed from the Dow Jones Wilshire Global Total Market Index℠ family. This change will become effective at the start of trading on Monday, June 18, 2007.
From the monthly archives:
March 2007
Dow Jones Indexes and AMANA Securities Limited announced the launch of the Dow Jones Islamic Market AMANA Sri Lanka Index.
Dow Jones Indexes announced component changes in the Dow Jones Asia Select Dividend 30 Index.
Dow Jones Indexes and Wilshire Associates announced that the Texas-based El Paso Firemen & Policemen’s Pension Fund has adopted the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index℠ as a supplemental benchmark for its domestic equity investment portfolio. The Fund also is relying on proprietary Dow Jones Wilshire Index Data to monitor the investment strategies being executed by its portfolio managers. The announcement comes after a successful trial period.